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Progress in recovering power is moving slowly. Today Entergy reports they "expect to make significant progress today and through the weekend restoring power." They expect to restore power to 90% of customers "who can take power" by September 6. But the statsu today...
The current, as of 10a.m. on Thursday August 30, status of power outages in New Orleans is shown below. Entergy, the local utility, has 10,000 workers deployed to restore power. Legend: Blue = 1 to 50, Yellow = 51 to 250 and Red = 251 to 1,000 power outages. Red lines...
As Hurricane Isaac continues its slow march inland, the city of New Orleans is largely without power this afternoon. This image shows the widespread power outages in the city. It’s seems eerie that today is the seventh anniversary, if you should call it that, of...
Here is a live view of wind speeds as reported hint.fm/wind. This image shows the measured sustained wind speed in New Orleans at 10:00a.m. today. It has been a busy couple of days for Global Data Vault, but things are going well. As the storm approached, we...
Whether you are outsourcing your Disaster Recovery program or keeping it in house, the steps required to implement it are critical. In this series, we’ve drafted an outline of how to build a remote Disaster Recovery site for your IT. In our previous articles, Choosing...
What does it take to build a remote Disaster Recovery site for your IT? (Part 2 of 3) Whether you are outsourcing your Disaster Recovery program or keeping it in house, the steps required to implement it are critical. In this series, we’ve drafted an outline of how to...
What’s the difference between Data Backup and Disaster Recovery and how do I know which I need? What it is Data backup is a method in which your computer and network files are replicated in such a way that you can reinstall them in the event of a data loss. Data...
(The second in three part series on Developing an Effective Data Retention Policy. In our previous article, Developing an Effective Data Retention Policy, we outlined the history of and comparison of tape backup environments to disc backup environments. Understanding...
(The first in a three part series. Jump to Part Two: What do you HAVE to back up?) Archiving one’s data is a challenge for every business, whether the business is a billion dollar enterprise or a SOHO. Data loss can be devastating to the profitability of any...
Computer hardware fails, and the result is often the loss of valuable data. At Global Data Vault, we have a front-row seat to this mayhem. To ensure your offsite backup solution provides recovery as you expect, you must make sure that all of your important data is...